Worms Cathedral, dedicated to St. Peter and…

Worms Cathedral, dedicated to St. Peter and consecrated in 1110, ranks, along with Speyer and Mainz, among the finest Romanesque churches along the Rhine and one of the one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany.

This magnificent basilica, with four round towers, two large domes, and a choir at each end, has an imposing exterior, though the impression produced by the interior is also one of great dignity and simplicity, heightened by the natural color of the red sandstone of which it is built. (Only the ground plan and the lower part of the western towers belong to the original building consecrated in 1110. The remainder will mostly be finished by 1181, but the west choir and the vaulting will be built in the thirteenth century, the elaborate south portal will added in the fourteenth century, and the central dome will eventually be rebuilt.)